The Logical Structure of the World: Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

constitution theory

Constitution theory was fully articulated by Rudolf Carnap, a philosopher of language and of science, in Logische Aufbau der Welt (1928; The Logical Structure of the World: Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, 1967). A scientific concept, such as “atom” or “gene,” is said to be “reduced” when every sentence containing the concept can be transformed...

discussed in biography

In his first great work, Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928; The Logical Structure of the World), Carnap developed, with unprecedented rigour, a version of the empiricist reducibility thesis according to which all terms suited to describe actual or possible empirical facts are fully definable by terms referring exclusively to aspects of immediate experience, so that...

positivist theory of knowledge

...objects as comprising classes of (perceptual) aspects or perspectives, an idea that later stimulated the work of Rudolf Carnap, an outstanding philosophical semanticist and analyst, entitled Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928; The Logical Structure of the World). Mach remained the most influential thinker among positivists for a long time, though some of his...